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Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Repeal of 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Advances — WASHINGTON — After a 17-year struggle, the Senate on Saturday cleared the way for repealing the Pentagon's ban on gay men and lesbians serving openly in the military. — By a bipartisan vote of 63 to 33, the Senate acted to cut off debate …
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David M. Herszenhorn / New York Times:
Senate Blocks Bill for Illegal Immigrant Students — The Senate on Saturday blocked a bill that would create a path to citizenship for certain illegal immigrant students who came to the United States as children, completed two years of college or military service and met other requirements including passing a criminal background check.
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The Note, Don Surber, Sky Dancing, neo-neocon, Vox Popoli, Truthdig, GayPatriot, Outside the Beltway and The Reality-Based Community
The Politico:
DREAM Act dies in Senate — The weeks of rallies, hunger strikes and sit-ins and the thousands of phone calls placed to Senate offices didn't pay off for immigration activists. — The decade-old DREAM Act once again failed to break a filibuster in the Senate on Saturday morning …
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Weigel, Ben Smith's Blog, The Gateway Pundit and FrumForum
Ed O'Keefe / Washington Post:
Senate votes to repeal 'don't ask, don't tell' — The Senate voted 65 to 31 Saturday to repeal the “don't ask, don't tell” law, beginning the process of ending a 17-year ban on gays serving openly in the military and reversing decades of official military policy.
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The Moderate Voice, Fox News, Right Wing Watch, PostPartisan, Taylor Marsh, Pam's House Blend, The Gateway Pundit and USA Today
Shira Toeplitz / The Politico:
Eight Republicans back 'Don't ask' repeal — Eight Republicans bucked their party in backing the repeal of the “Don't Ask, Don't Tell” policy, potentially risking a backlash from the conservative base while giving the historic vote a stronger bipartisan finish than many expected.
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Crooks and Liars and The Hill
Evan McMorris-Santoro / TPMDC:
Senate Repeals Don't Ask, Don't Tell — With just a signature from President Obama, a ban on openly gay servicemembers will no longer be the law of the land. — By a vote of 65 to 31 this afternoon, the Senate voted to repeal the military's Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy.
The Hill:
Senate breaks GOP filibuster, advances 'Don't ask' repeal — A proposal to repeal the military's “Don't ask, don't tell” policy cleared a major hurdle in Congress on Saturday when the Senate voted to end a GOP-led filibuster. — The Senate voted 63 to 33 to advance a stand-alone bill …
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Ben Smith's Blog, The Note, ABCNEWS, The Hill, Sky Dancing, Weasel Zippers, Hot Air, White House.gov Blog Feed, The Politico and National Review
CNN:
Senate passes 'don't ask, don't tell' repeal — Washington (CNN) — The military's prohibition of openly gay people serving within its ranks is one step closer to ending, after the Senate voted Saturday to repeal the armed forces' “don't ask, don't tell” policy.
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Outside the Beltway, Runnin' Scared and Pharyngula
Scott Wong / The Politico:
'Don't ask, don't tell' repeal wins final passage
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The Hill, Power Line, The Note, FrumForum and Liberty Pundits Blog
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
DADT Breaks Filibuster
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The Moderate Voice and TPMDC
USA Today:
Senate passes 'don't ask,' sends repeal to Obama
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Michelle Malkin, Alan Colmes' Liberaland and The Impolitic
Bridget Johnson / The Hill:
Pro-immigration groups decry ‘shameful’ vote; enforcement groups vow new push
Julia Preston / New York Times:
Bill to Grant Legal Status to Immigrant Students Heads to a Vote in the Senate
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ABCNEWS, The Note, The Politico, NewsBusters.org blogs, America's Voice Blog, CNN and White House.gov Blog Feed
Evan McMorris-Santoro / TPMDC:
Don't Ask, Don't Tell Repeal Advances In Senate — Final Vote Likely This Weekend
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Pam's House Blend, Feministing, Talking Points Memo, Blue Wave News, Wake up America and pandagon.net
Anne Flaherty / Associated Press:
Senate advances bill to lift military gay ban
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GayPatriot and The Other McCain
Patricia Murphy / Politics Daily:
'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Repeal Passes Senate, But Change Will Take Time
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Balloon Juice
CNN:
Senate to hold final vote on 'don't ask, don't tell,' DREAM Act fails
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Washington Post and Jezebel
Anne Flaherty / The Huffington Post:
'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Repeal Faces Senate Vote Today
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Crooks and Liars
Andrea Nill / ThinkProgress:
As DREAM Act Fails, Graham Tells Undocumented Youth They Wasted Their Time — Today, the Senate failed to invoke cloture on the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act. Fourty-one mostly Republican senators voted against a bill which would have provided young undocumented immigrants …
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Left Coast Rebel
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Shankar Vedantam / Washington Post:
Defeat of immigration measure reveals failed White House strategy, advocates say
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Balloon Juice
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
DREAM Act cloture fails, 55-41
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National Review, The Hill and The Anchoress
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
SENATE KILLS ‘DREAM ACT’.... It should have been an easy one.
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Bold Faith Type
Carrie Dann / msnbc.com:
DREAM Act blocked in Senate
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Gothamist, Weasel Zippers, USA Today, Crooks and Liars, iOwnTheWorld.com, Wake up America and Moe Lane
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Manchin's whereabouts — Today's minor mystery was the location of newly-minted West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin, who missed key votes on the DREAM Act and the repeal of “Don't Ask, Don't Tell.” (He says he would have voted “no” on both.) — The Gazette reports:
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The Huffington Post and TPMDC
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Alison Knezevich / Squawk Box:
Manchin skips votes on DADT, DREAM Act — Today is a big day in the U.S. Senate, and Sen. Joe Manchin isn't there. — Manchin missed key votes today on the repeal of “don't ask, don't tell” — which advanced and is headed for a final vote this afternoon — and the DREAM Act …
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The Note, Ben Smith's Blog, Washington Post, TPMDC, Talking Points Memo and AOL News
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
START treaty survives threat from McCain amendment on missile defense — The Senate voted 37 to 59 on Saturday to reject an amendment to the preamble of the New START nuclear treaty that Democrats say would have gutted it. — The amendment sponsored by Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) …
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National Review
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Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
Whose Party Is It? — The far left is foaming at the mouth. — The near-apoplectic level of agita within the liberal screeching class over President Obama's tax-cut compromise has exposed a seismic crack in the Democratic monolith — outspoken liberal Democrats on one side and barely audible moderate Democrats on the other.
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NewsBusters.org blogs, Daily Kos and INSTAPUTZ
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Lydia Saad / Gallup:
Conservatives Continue to Outnumber Moderates in 2010
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The Moderate Voice, Scared Monkeys and Wake up America
Joe Nocera / New York Times:
Explaining the Crisis With Dogma — What was that about? — I'm talking about that odd 13-page “report” issued on Wednesday by the four Republican members of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission. The F.C.I.C., of course, is the 10-member, supposedly bipartisan panel that was created …
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JustOneMinute, Grasping Reality …, The Big Picture and Paul Krugman
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Army Court-Martial Defense Specialist / The Law Office …:
A Typical Day for PFC Bradley Manning — PFC Manning is currently being held in maximum custody. Since arriving at the Quantico Confinement Facility in July of 2010, he has been held under Prevention of Injury (POI) watch. — His cell is approximately six feet wide and twelve feet in length.
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